DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Panicum obtusum | Vine-Mesquite 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Vine-mesquite is found in shortgrass prairie, pinyon-juniper woodlands,
and desert grasslands of the southern United States and northern Mexico
[23].  It occurs from southern Missouri west to southern Utah, and south
to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico [18].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  AR  CO  HI  KS  MO  NE  NM  OK  TX
     UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CANY  CACA  CHIR  CORO
     FOBO  GLCA  GRCA  GUMO  LAMR  ORPI
     PEFO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K061  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K088  Fayette prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    67  Mohrs ("shin") oak
    68  Mesquite
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   240  Arizona cypress
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Vine-mesquite is commonly found in the understory of soapberry (Sapindus
saponaria), gray oak (Quercus grisea), juniper (Juniperus spp.), and
mesquite (Prosopis spp.) communities [4,28,29,30].  In the understory
vine-mesquite is associated with curlymesquite (Hilaria belangeri),
side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) [9], buffalograss (Buchloe
dactyloides), Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides), and galleta
(Hilaria jamesii) [7].

Vine-mesquite is listed as an indicator or dominant species in the
following vegetation and community type classifications:

Zonation of herbaceous vegetation associated with honey mesquite in
   northcentral Texas [45]
Riparian plant communities of the Fort Bayard watershed in southwestern
   New Mexico [28]
Woodland communities and soils of Fort Bayard, southwestern New Mexico [29].

Related categories for Species: Panicum obtusum | Vine-Mesquite